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'MARTIN R. KENYON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. y

Lem/rs Patent No. 87,854, amd March 16,1869.

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To all 'whom 'it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN R. KENYON, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and improved Button, or Stud-f andI do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings, making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof. v

Figure 1 shows the proper size of my improved stud.

Figure 2 shows the position of the parts previous to inserting' the stud in the bosom.

,Figure 3 is a view of the same, after insertion in the bosom.

Figure 4 is a bottom view.

Figure 5 is a, view ofthe edge.

Studs and sleeve-buttons have heretofore been the subject of many patents, and manyuseful improvements have been made in this class of inventions; the object of each and every inventor being to produce something which might easily be adj usted to the garment, without wrinklingor injuring it, and when once adjusted, not liable to become disengaged and lost, yet few of the many inventions have possessed that simplicity of construction, which, in anv article so small, is essential to its durability, and feweristill, have been any real im? provernent upon the old-fashioned button-stud, which is much objected to, as its use almost always results in an injury to the appearance of the garment or arti- ,cle to which it is attached.

In my invention, which I will now proceed: to describe, I have endeavored to preserve the durability of the old button-stud, and at the same time producea stud, which, for ease and facility of adjustment, shall be superior to others now in use.

In the drawings;-

A,.fig. 2, is the top of the stu and B, the shank. The' shank B is mortised its entire length, for the purpose of receivingtwo levers, or elbows, C and D,-

which are attached to the lower end of the shank, by means of a pin or rivet, E. y f

4The stud being ready for use, the parts occupying the position shown in iig. 2, the yarms E' and H are inserted in the eyelet-hole, until the points t and a', upon the arms K and K', come inoontact with the cloth, when, by the pressure of the thumb or nger upon the top, A, the arms K and K come together and fill the mortise in the shank B, the arms H and H' at the same ltime spreading apartvupon the other side of the cloth. A 5.

The parts now occupy the position .shown in g. 3, and the button is securely fastened. to the garment.

' Whenever it is desired to remove the stud, the wearer takes hold of the top, A, and pulls it out. The pressure upon the arms H and H'brings them again together, ihe parts resuming their formerrposition, asshown in I do not coniine my invention to bosom-studs entirely, as the same devicemay be used in sleeve or other buttons.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- s The combination of the button-head A,.shank. B, elbows O and D, and arms H and H', the whole constructedand arranged substantiallyas described, for the pm'poses specified. i

' MARTIN B. KENYON.

' Witnesses:

W. B. VINCENT, G. -B. BAnnows. 

